ABSTRACT
This chapter unpacks the dynamics of capital’s agenda in the context of convergence of crisis. Its resulting land-use change and property relations are explored to further understand the implications of dynamics of resource grabbing. The chapter is based on the Massingir case experience, a district in southern Mozambique, where multiple projects were implemented, and synergies were created among them but with high social costs. By identifying synergies among efficiency-driven and environmentally friendly projects across sectors, one is able to further understand that those synergies, created in the process of grabbing and expropriating resources, are actually working for external goals (accumulation or environmental) while undermining local priorities and reproduction. Overall, climate-smart policies induced changes in land use and property relations that incited synergistic resource grabbing and multiple waves of expropriation with differentiated patterns and outcomes of dispossession, such as dispossession by reallocation, (partial) dispossession with loss of control and dispossession by the reallocated.
